About the role
The Engineering Manager will lead cross-functional teams to deliver high-performance trading platform solutions while driving technical excellence and process improvements. They are responsible for strategic planning, architectural guidance, and the professional growth of their team members.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have over 7 years of software engineering experience, including at least 3 years in a management role within high-reliability or financial domains. Proficiency in backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines is essential for this position.
Benefits
Full description
We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and scale our engineering teams building a high-performance trading platform. You will be responsible for people leadership, delivery excellence, and technical direction across a hybrid infrastructure.
This role sits at the intersection of engineering, infrastructure, and business, with a strong focus on reliability, performance, and scalability in a latency-sensitive environment.
Responsibilities
• Lead and manage one or multiple cross-functional engineering teams (backend, frontend, infrastructure, mobile)
• Own delivery, quality, and technical outcomes for your teams
• Own strategic initiatives in engineering department
• Partner closely with Product, Trading, and Senior Engineering leadership to translate business requirements into technical execution
• Drive and evolve engineering processes: planning, estimation, CI/CD, code reviews, testing, and release management
• Guide architectural decisions for systems running on hybrid infrastructure
• Ensure high availability, performance, and observability of production systems
• Identify and reduce technical debt, while maintaining delivery velocity
• Hire, onboard, mentor, and grow engineers; conduct 1:1s and performance reviews
• Foster a culture of ownership, customer first, and result-oriented
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 3+ years in an Engineering Manager role
- Background in financial systems, trading platforms, or other high-reliability domains
- Strong understanding of backend systems
- Experience operating systems on different cloud systems (EC2, networking, security, monitoring)
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and deployment strategies
- Familiarity with observability tools (metrics, logging, alerting) and performance monitoring
Will be a plus
- Experience working with on-premise infrastructure and hybrid environments
- Hands-on experience in Ruby
- Experience with low-latency or high-throughput systems
- Exposure to trading, fintech, or market-data platforms
- Experience scaling teams and systems
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools
We offer
- 20 paid vacation days per year
- 10 paid sick leave days per year
- Public holidays as per the company's approved Public holiday list
- Medical insurance
- Opportunity to work remotely
- Professional education budget
- Language learning budget
- Wellness budget (gym membership, sports gear and related expenses)
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